I finally feel like my life is back to normal. For the past few weeks I have been a combination of SICK and Busy. All of which have affected my voice.
I've been taking a UCB intensive improv class which took 3 hours out of my day. I would literally get home at late just enough time to wake up early to go to class.
Enough excuses.
Tonight I muscled through Voices and V123 auditions. I'm hoping to pull one or two just to get back on track.
An interesting enigma happened while i was sick, I got a job from Voicebunny. It's an interesting site, free to voice actors, which is great, but it kind of sucks for clients. You post how much you get paid per amount of words, toss up your demo, and people hire you direct. Not so much audition. I've never really gotten any notices of auditions, I just got a notice of "You booked a job", $50. Awesome.
Then I do the job, interestingly enough, you just read it once and you send it off. And that's it. In my case, the read got rejected but I get paid anyway.
Weird conundrum, I want to get the job done right. I usually give clients 2-3 goes and they can maybe ask for a redo. This is a one shot deal. Sure, I get paid but I want to do jobs correctly.
I'm not sure if I like this or not. Sure enough the job gets posted again on Voices, a much higher rate there, I reaudition and try to explain that I was sorry about the system.
Anyways, if Voicebunny gets you jobs, use it. It's not costing me anything so why not. The only draw back is that you end up kind of screwing the client. Weird.
Anyways, back to VO, I did a bunch of auditions now I wait. As always, I get emails, (and this is constant) from clients saying that they want to redo the script and ask how much I would quote them. My rules on this, if it's entirely new and the same size, same price. If its small changes but you'll end up reading it, I take a little off. If it's like phone numbers or rewrites of a few sentences where I can just edit them in, then even smaller. The thing I like is a system where it's not like I'm screwing them over and they feel like they're not being screwed over. In the end, I get a lot of repeat business.
And if you wanna work and survive on VO alone, you have to get the auditions and jobs and get that repeat business. If people like you, they'll come back.
Much love and I promise to blog more. But, I'm back. !!!!
